About 300 young boys ages 7-14 from indigent families availed of the local government’s free circumcision program called Operation Tuli.
Dumaguete City Health Office conducted the operation the whole summer since there were no classes, the right time for teens and adolescents to get circumcised.
According to Health Office head nurse Emily Aborro the circumcision had a fee of P200 for the operation and the office to provide the medicines. A medical team also visited the barangays to do the operation.
Aborro said the operation caters 20 to 25 boys every Thursday and Friday for two months in the summer.
“No changes this year. We still have the same procedure, and there are no requirements as long as the child submits to the circumcision,” Aborro said.
“Nevertheless, there are some boys who would still refuse and wouldn’t submit for the circumcision, a slight problem encountered by the City Health. If ever that happens, they would advise the child to come back the following week or the following year,” added Aborro.
The circumcision is important for adolescents to get circumcised since it is part of hygiene, the health official said. (PIA7-NegOr, with reports from Ina Isabelle Taburaza, SU Masscom intern)
